Soren Gantt

Dr. Soren Gantt is a Canadian pediatric infectious diseases epidemiologist based in Montreal, Quebec. He is notable in the COVID-19 pandemic due to his position with the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) when COVID-19 vaccines were first authorized in Canada.

Gantt obtained a Bachelor of Sciences with Honours in Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. He then received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program at New York University School of Medicine, where he worked on malaria vaccine development in the Department of Immunology. Dr. Gantt then completed a residency in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases Fellowship, and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital, addressing transmission and pathogenesis of HIV and herpes viruses.

In 2006, Gantt was recognized as a scholar with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap Clinical Research Career Development Program.

Gantt is former Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia and Director of Clinical Research at BC Children’s Hospital. He departed Vancouver in July 2020.¹⁾

Gantt is employed as a research and professor by the University of Montreal.²⁾ He is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases specialist and director of clinical research at CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center.³⁾